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• America’s sunk so low, dishonor and disgrace don’t end political careers. Ohio politicians prove it. August 12, 2026
  Dishonor should be disqualifying in politics. It is not. Scandalous behavior or public corruption should end political careers. They do not. Ohio politicians proved the point last week. U.S. Rep. Max Miller was a political appointee in the first Trump administration who promoted Trump’s false claims of a “rigged” 2020 election before being elected to […]
• Catching Our Eye News Roundup, Aug. 11, 2026 August 11, 2026
  Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye, republished here. Please subscribe to our free daily newsletter to get all the Ohio news you need to know […]
• Ohioans in US Rep. Max Miller’s district want action, consequences as House ethics probe continues August 11, 2026
  Amid lawsuits, allegations of domestic violence, and calls to step aside from both of Ohio’s Republican U.S. Senators, Ohio Republican U.S. Rep. Max Miller is still running for reelection in November and his constituents say they are looking for consequences and accountability. Heather Tuck-Macalla lives with her family in Bay Village, a town just west […]
• ‘Not a safe place.’ Aid worker describes conditions in Haiti as Ohioans are forced to return August 11, 2026
  A Florida congressman said last month that forcing tens of thousands of Haitians to return to the violence-ravaged country will actually help it.  But a humanitarian worker on the ground in the nation’s capital said it will only make a dire situation much worse — in multiple, mutually reinforcing ways. And that’s aside from what […]
• State of Ohio reverses course, finds Cuyahoga jail staff failed to start CPR in Wade’s death August 11, 2026
  This article was first published by The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Facebook. Correctional staff failed to start CPR the moment they discovered Jennifer Wade lifeless in her Cuyahoga County jail cell last year, state […]
• Fracking is not ‘responsible development’ of Ohio’s state parks and public lands August 11, 2026
  Ohio’s oil and gas industry continues to spread one of its cruel, bald-faced lies. Industry spokespeople claim fracking oil and gas from state parks and wildlife areas is “responsible development” of Ohio public lands. But parks don’t belong to one supermajority political party to lease, industrialize, monetize, and destroy. Ohio public lands belong to all […]